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  From: Damien Byrne <damienbyrne@iprimus.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 03:46:58 +1030

Re: Any Questions to Red Hat, Mandrake You'd Like To Ask?

Actually, apt and rpm are two different types of things I believe.

rpm is a package format, roughly equivilent to deb format where as apt-get is 
a management tool that uses dpkg (or something) to actually install the 
package.

Mandrake has a utility called urpmi which tries to be an apt-get for rpm, 
although it is a year or two younger, but it is maturing quite well so far.  
Mandrake also has the connectiva apt-get port in their unsupported lists (I 
think it's unsupported) so you can try that out too.

Here is a short info page on it:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html

Cheers.
Damien Byrne
(Yet to make an interesting .sig file)

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:59, Richard Russell wrote:
> yeah...
>
> What's your (Redhat's/Mandrake's) plans for future package management
> system upgrades? Will RPM be made as usable as apt (or even BSD's
> ports?) ?
>
> rr
>
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:49:18PM +1030, Joseph Tan wrote:
> > Hiya Everyone,
> >
> > On Tech-Junkie I'm currently doing a RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1
> > comparative review. The review will be centred around both distro's
> > usability - I'm going to do this article different in that I'll be
> > looking at how good both are as desktop OSes.
> >
> > For some interest, I've got Marty Wesley (Red Hat's OS Product Manager)
> > and Mathilde Kraskovetz (Mandrake's Communication & PR person) to answer
> > any and all questions regarding their most recent products. I'm not sure
> > yet whether to include their responses with the comparative review since
> > it may unduly bias the article - I could always launch it separately.
> >
> > Anyway, since many of you seem like you live and breath Linux, are there
> > any questions YOU'd like to ask to both of them?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joseph Tan
> >
> >
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